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To RH Milroy From Schuyler Colfax Oct 17 Year Unk

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My dear Milroy
Thanks for your letter of 6th
received last week & still more for those
sick soldiers you sent home. You can’t
imagine how a change of climate restored their
health. They could whip twice their weight in
Copperheads when they arrived. & the visit was timely
for the polls
You can scarcely realize how bitter & desperate
has the fight the enemy made against me.
They concentrated their fire on this District
imported speakers from Ky, Ill & Ohio, spent
money like water, held hosp meetings ( they had them
at 10 of my 14 Co. seats the last 2 days before
election, & were hopeful & sanguine to the last.
I spoke every day & twice a day, for 2 months.
And the maj is magnificent, 1610 to 1700.
Am just starting to speak in 12 Districts in Mich,
Ill, Ms & Iowa till Prsd election, though
worn out. In great haste, Ever & truly
Schuyler Colfax

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My dear Milroy
Thanks for your letter of 6th
received last week & still more for those
sick soldiers you sent home. You can’t
imagine how a change of climate restored their
health. They could whip twice their weight in
Copperheads when they arrived. & the visit was timely
for the polls
You can scarcely realize how bitter & desperate
has the fight the enemy made against me.
They concentrated their fire on this District
imported speakers from Ky, Ill & Ohio, spent
money like water, held hosp meetings ( they had them
at 10 of my 14 Co. seats the last 2 days before
election, & were hopeful & sanguine to the last.
I spoke every day & twice a day, for 2 months.
And the maj is magnificent, 1610 to 1700.
Am just starting to speak in 12 Districts in Mich,
Ill, Ms & Iowa till Prsd election, though
worn out. In great haste, Ever & truly
Schuyler Colfax

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This item is owned by the Jasper County Public Library. Permission to publish or reproduce this item is required and must be obtained from the Director of the Jasper County Public Library, Rensselaer, Indiana. Please visit www.myjcpl.org for more information.